Halton Hills Newspapers

Georgetown Herald (Georgetown, ON), October 5, 1988, p. 6

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I A Tilt llbllALI October Volunteers must fill several roles Hospice workers help families cope lly DONNA Ki Herald HUH Out out brief candle Life but walking poor player hat lira It and hour upon the Shako pea re As an English literature graduate and a professional caregiver Donna McClure of the North Hospice recognltcs Ihc tragedy In the last hour of the dying And as a human being she shares the pain It a sharing process Many of our patients are facing death you team from the ex It a bit like watching a Shakespearean tragedy The North Hospice and its eight to 10 volunteers engage In volunteer visiting of the 111 and their families They ait as liaison or a bridge between the family the medical profession and volunteer groups that can help says Gerry Murphy Georgetown resident and Hospice volunteer Volunteers function In several roles They arc caregivers counsel ing the patient and the family a terminal illness quite often cancer according to Mrs Mur are rands helping the b just being there to hold listen There is a need The family as a rule are so caught up In the terminal illness that they need someone to sit back and maybe be objective about it all said Mrs Murphy And the Hospice enters the family home at a time when friends and relatives disappear People tend to back off Friends back off They don do conscious ly they re just sort of overwhelm said Mrs the and a formir membtr of tht Victorian Order of And as an objective third part Hospice volunteers can see things family members may be too Intuitive action involved In being a Hospice volunteer training for the begins with practical now led go Volunteer candidates are taken to hospitals funeral homes and en motor I urns and at tend lectures on dealing with grief Volunteers are given time la discover their own feelings about terminal illness sold Mrs Murphy Mrs Murphy decision to volunteer fur the 10ycarold Hospice service came otter years of reading articles about the Hospice once bos in When she read about one person who had died alone she decided to become a part Hospice force I hough no one should have to die alone slit said But Mrs Murphy to realm that death is nut what Ifospin all Death is i small part of It fcvtryont with death 1 guess it not to dwell on the aspect of things We want to family fully she said terms with It a mutually grown said Volunteers enter family life sharing their griefs and laughter Mrs Murphy this is a Someone has allowed you Ihtir This intimacy said a rtal privilege dimension tun giving shopping or ping grieving through arrangements mediant to curing of III patients to par liHkilL in meditation tall rtlaxution visuallintion art tc hi to eyes and fouis on music or laxed intru distraught The vol You don know going through Very often they can express what re fetlmg said Mrs McClure Mrs Murphy gives examplt of a woman dying of hud a communication problim wilh son Cancer hud mfttted the woman brain and slit was ting ha Hilly said Mrs Murphy As i Mrs Murphy smoothed over with the angry mother Iht son but the incident was not forgot from round patient Who knows what if I had reflects present of own inn of death patients said Mrs Murphy die the way they live As volunteer we enter their lives whtre they Mrs Murphy first begun with a vision to change to feel was in ing has since gained a new philosophy You don t sit out to do anything Thtrt s mining you tan do You just have to Ik You just have to wait for the person need she said need is reciprocal ixerelses said Mrs Met Mrs Murphy uses a unique tailed therapeutic touch a using energy rum the body pain in In the n I all this death Mrs and Mrs have relumed both their sense of lovt for be but they gained a new sense of life and death they want to share wilh everyone You to accept It You have to say I m here today m going to make the most if it says Mrs Ml You in I control the act that going to die but you can eon Mrs Met lis Hiding that you Tlit North Hospice is totaled in the mid Information it Willow Street and serves Halton Hills Milton in or information Adult classes pave way to brighter future Amid the wood chips sawdust sounds filling 128 at Georgetown District High School adull students ire learning lo build dreams lattr in life The dream building is u part of the progrn available at this year and students in Room 123 are adults going back for a second try lllia of works full time afternoon shift at a local store The woodwork is something special he does for himself You take a lot of pride from il 1 always liked wood work but didn know how to make anything he said Now Mr Williams puts him mer nail plant to wood surface and a he Jane story is similar She works full time home and wanted a diversion I took wood working in Grade I guess this in course will further my skills she said Mrs McQuome is in building a suggestion box for Haiti Hills 1 in where she used work For introductory students these adults art racing through the lessons with flying colors dement of wesl Hills is a retiree who woodworking is a hobby Hut what i Mr It is working completing for himself his wife When asked if wis finish eablnols with a Mr eonfesseil it his ls a wood painter and that his irk will end in p There students iht wood working tlass ufht Georgetown lJnve is proud it Thej re lung ill well ht said It it is chine shop tht rosle iswortlilw adult leclntal dnifling Mr liwruci sits will added inn Lrjilirh win as next stud says he will said Mr inu ili to with woodwork rtLul ir Hit nexl wood list of w rlnng e un in January aire I WW d will rone semester 111 s e ret eh up Comparing apples and I Apple Day Market Place bright and early on Saturday offering tome dell dona red apples to shopper Herald the Georgetown photo Hans drill and Parent A annual ilse money for school as carted own a plump projects King behind pumpkin wire part of Park Herald photo EVERY SINGLE ITEM ON SALE BREAD BASKET BAKERY CAFE 12 MILL ST ACTON HOURS Tuesday Saturday 6 Closed Mondays Hilda Bruce Colling 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